|Scientific Name:||Chaetodon marleyi|
|Species Authority:||Regan, 1921|
Chaetodon notophthalmus Ahl, 1923
|Red List Category & Criteria:||Least Concern ver 3.1|
|Assessor(s):||Rocha, L.A., Pyle, R. & Myers, R.|
|Reviewer(s):||Elfes, C., Polidoro, B., Livingstone, S. & Carpenter, K.E.|
Listed as Least Concern in view of its presence in marine protected areas and no apparent major threats.
|Previously published Red List assessments:||
|Range Description:||This western Indian Ocean species ranges from Delagoa Bay (Mozambique) in the north to Lamberts Bay (South Africa) in the south (G.R. Allen pers. comm. 2006). It has been collected at depths of up to120 m.|
Native:Mozambique; South Africa (Eastern Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape)
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:||
Atlantic – southeast; Indian Ocean – western
|Lower depth limit (metres):||120|
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|Population:||It is generally common with stable populations (G.R. Allen pers. comm. 2006).|
|Current Population Trend:||Stable|
|Habitat and Ecology:||This species is generally associated with rocky and coral covered reefs, but has also been recorded from shallow tidal pools and estuaries where it lives among macroalgae (Allen 1980, G.R. Allen pers. comm. 2006).|
|Use and Trade:||This species is sometimes collected for the aquarium trade (G.R. Allen pers. comm. 2006). It is rarely exported from South Africa (Allen 1980).|
|Major Threat(s):||There appear to be no major threats to this species (G.R. Allen pers. comm. 2006).|
|Conservation Actions:||There appear to be no species-specific conservation measures in place. This species is present within marine protected areas.|
Allen, G.R. 1980. Butterfly and angelfishes of the world. Wiley, New York.
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. pp. 378. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Burgess, W.E. 1978. Butterflyfishes of the world. A monograph of the Family Chaetodontidae. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, New Jersey.
Hudson, E. and Mace, G. 1996. Marine fish and the IUCN red list of threatened animals. Report of the workshop held in collaboration with World Wildlife Federation and International Union for Conservation in Nature at the Zoological Society of London. IUCN, London, UK.
IUCN. 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2010.4). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 27 October 2010).
Pereira, M.A.M. 2000. Preliminary Checklist of Reef-associated Fishes of Mozambique. MICOA, Maputo.
van der Elst, R. 1993. A guide to the common sea fishes of southern Africa. Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa.
|Citation:||Rocha, L.A., Pyle, R. & Myers, R. 2010. Chaetodon marleyi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T4362A10816177. . Downloaded on 27 May 2016.|
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